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08-02-2009, 08:32 PM
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For the past 2 or 3 weeks, I have been getting huge whiffs of random smells. I was riding in the car the other day and smelled rubbing alcohol, and my mom who was right beside me didn't. This has happened several times with the alcohol smell, peanut butter, peaches, mint, pizza, and several other things that smelled really strong but that I was nowhere near and nobody else can smell it. Any ideas?
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08-02-2009, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Texas | | Sensory seizure? Phantosmia? http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/phantosmia/AN01684
Not trying to worry you, but this is what came up when I did a quick search. Other explanations all centered around ghosts...I tend to side with medical science in these cases. Did you hit your head prior to the start of these unexplained smells?
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08-02-2009, 08:41 PM
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08-02-2009, 08:46 PM
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08-02-2009, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by bui  Sensory seizure? Phantosmia? http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/phantosmia/AN01684
Not trying to worry you, but this is what came up when I did a quick search. Other explanations all centered around ghosts...I tend to side with medical science in these cases. Did you hit your head prior to the start of these unexplained smells? | ^ This Quote:
Originally Posted by standupright lay off the acid | ...and possibly this  
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08-02-2009, 09:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: San diego, Ca. | | | I smell coconut a day or two before I get sick. |
08-02-2009, 10:30 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | never had this problem... let us know what comes of it. |
08-02-2009, 10:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | For whatever this is worth . . . .
Phantosmia is an olfactory hallucination--specifically, the phenomenon of smelling odors that aren't really present. The most common odors are unpleasant smells such as rotting flesh, vomit, urine, feces, smoke, etc. Phantosmia often results from damage to the nervous tissue in the olfactory system. The damage can be caused by viral infection, brain tumor, trauma, surgery, and possibly exposure to toxins or drugs. Phantosmia can also be induced by epilepsy affecting the olfactory cortex and is also thought to possibly have psychiatric origins. - Wikipedia
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08-03-2009, 02:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
Do You smoke?
Do You do "controlled substances"?
Both can do wonders for our senses  .
Some people have a better sense of smell than others, just like any other sense.
Sometimes our senses (brains) also play tricks on us, tricks that are hard to distinguish from reality.
I for example am really sensitive to smoke of any kind, especially asbestos lining smell. I don't know why, perhaps I'm unconsiously afraid that I'll die in a fire. Doesn't explain the asbestos lining smell though.
The environment around us is filled with cents and smells. Sometimes the combinations aren't easily recognized by the brain, and it makes an "assumption". Quite the same when we try to identify a random instrument in a tune.
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08-03-2009, 02:55 AM
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08-03-2009, 07:38 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Sometimes after a sneeze of epic proportion I swear to God I can smell the inside of my head. It's kinda musty in there.
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08-03-2009, 07:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vortex of sin and degradation | | I get phantosmia when my daughter takes off her shoes after a soccer game.
She tells me they don't stink but I swear I'm smelling something.  |
08-03-2009, 07:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NY/MI | | | I smelled some strange stuff yesterday... burning rubber and clutches... occasionally raw gas... was just constantly praying that it wasn't my truck since i didn't want to break down going through canada...
was bad enough i had to stop and get gas there
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08-03-2009, 07:59 AM
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08-03-2009, 08:07 AM
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08-03-2009, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex Sometimes after a sneeze of epic proportion I swear to God I can smell the inside of my head. It's kinda musty in there. | yes, me too. its a weird smell
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08-03-2009, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by vbasscustom yes, me too. its a weird smell | Our saliva has a different smell when we have a cold or the flu, I don't remember which one. It might be this.
At least, it correlates big sneeze -> weird smell.
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08-03-2009, 01:17 PM
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08-03-2009, 02:06 PM
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08-03-2009, 02:09 PM
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